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As inflation caused by resident Biden's policies continues to drive fuel prices higher, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the international instability that's followed has resulted in a new record-setting highs at the pump beginning on Thursday: $5.067 per gallon on average in San Francisco — the first time a U.S. city passed the $5 mark. Following Thursday's spike in San Francisco, California's statewide average for regular unleaded also crossed the $5 threshold for the first time ever to reach $5.074 per gallon early Friday morning while California's statewide average for diesel also set an all-time record of $5.335 per gallon....

Rochester, N.Y. — Rochester Police are asking the public to help them solve several crimes at a home on Park Avenue. Police are looking for information about a masked man they say jumped over the homeowners' back railing and approached their door with what appears to be a knife. His image was captured on doorbell camera video in January. This is the 12th time in less than a year the home has been threatened, and each time, it has only gotten worse. The homeowners have been in the house in 2001 and it wasn't until 2021 when all the attacks...

The container shipping giant Maersk warned Wednesday that shipping delays caused by increased customs inspections as a result of Western sanctions might spoil or damage food and medical shipments that are bound for Russia.Maersk announced on Tuesday that it was cutting service to Russia to comply with sanctions but is allowing exemptions for food, medical, and humanitarian goods. But now the Denmark-based company is warning against bookings for the exempted goods due to delays. “We do, however, warn caution on still placing bookings for perishable cargo due to significant delays in key transshipment hubs that may damage the cargo,” Maersk...

WASHINGTON, Monday, March 3. The following dispatch was received this evening: CAIRO, March 3, 1862. To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Lieut.-Commanding SHIRK has this moment arrived from the Tennessee River, and brings full dispatches from Lieut.-Commanding GWINN, of the Tyler, a synopsis of which is, that the two gunboats proceeded up to Pittsburgh, near the Mississippi line, where a battery was opened upon them, consisting of six guns, one of them being rifled, which were soon silenced by the gunboats. Ninety mounted men landed, under cover of the gunboats, and charged upon the enemy, driving them at...

When half the country has lost its sense of pity for fellow citizens, and the ruling class reserves pity only for themselves and faraway lands, what can be left of American civilization? country without pity has lost its soul. Sadly, that is the state of America in 2022. On the eve of the two-year anniversary—which is too celebratory a word to describe its aftermath—of useless, destructive lockdowns sold as a way to stop the spread of COVID-19, our country has been exposed as a place overpopulated with pitiless citizens gratified by the suffering of others. The common bonds that tether...

The war between Ukraine and Russia will make the world’s hunger crisis even tougher to fight. The countries – one of which has traditionally been called Europe’s bread basket – are two of the world’s major suppliers of staple grains like wheat, and a protracted crisis increases the likelihood of supply interruptions and higher food prices for many people — including those who can least afford them. Gallup data offer insight into the populations most likely to suffer from a prolonged disruption: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also...

Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was apparently well aware that the Chinese government was withholding crucial information about the coronavirus as far back as January 2020. The Epoch Times reports that new documents uncovered by Judicial Watch reveal communications between NIAID and their Chinese counterparts which signal that the American agency actively coordinated with the Chinese leading up to the pandemic, and subsequently covered up the fact that China was withholding information. The 90 pages of communications records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, reveal that the National...

I can’t watch much of a State of the Union Address by any Democratic President, let alone Biden. It’s just too painful. But as a service to readers, I did watch a small portion, and then I skimmed through the transcript when it was released by the White House. Mostly, this exercise is useful be sure one understands the governing philosophy that informs our President and at least the Democrats in Congress. And this speech does inform us of that. Really, there’s nothing complicated about it. The federal government has infinite amounts of free money to hand out to solve...

Famed World War Two general George S. Patton commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II. General Patton is best known for leading the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany in the wake of the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. This article contains stories, quotes, timelines, and other pieces of information on one of the most competent and flamboyant generals in American military history.

President Biden is more worried about Russians crossing their border with Ukraine than he is about the Russians crossing our border with Mexico. The problem with America’s porous southern border and an unfinished wall to serve as a deterrent is the inability to know who has entered into the United States. Other than wanting to get into America without following the legal process, we know nothing about the countless illegals who are already here, including rough estimates that are close to accurate. Most people who cross illegally may be decent and simply want to take care of their families as...

Then Biden added, "One of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden," and then he said, "We don't know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer." No one asks whether Beau was anywhere near burn pits in Iraq. No fact-checkers stir. Heckling a president during the State of the Union (especially a Democrat president) is not polite or politically smart. But the liberal journalists who were scandalized by the heckling never take exception to Biden's very repetitive citations of his son, so much it reeks of exploitation. The president implied his son was...

EMMANUEL MACRON has renewed his calls for a collective EU military force in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The French President has long pushed for a collective EU army, saying back in 2018 that European citizens could not be fully protected without a “true, European army”. The UK has always gone up against such plans, even prior to the Brexit vote. Along with a number of the Baltic states, the UK has argued that an EU army could undermine the efficiency - and infringe on the jurisdiction - of NATO. Speaking on French national television on Wednesday...

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Increasing gas prices are steering more drivers toward electric cars. In fact, BMW of Jackson Sales Manager Landon Tucker said they’re selling out before they even get to the store. Tucker said he’s noticed an uptick in electric and hybrid car sales for the last eighteen months but that the war overseas is driving the demand even higher. “I had a friend text me yesterday, and he was never interested in electric vehicles. But he finally said, ‘After seeing what’s happening in Ukraine and the fact that we depend on Russia for so much oil, it...

“Putin thinks he’s the emperor of our times. Power can get you drunk. And the great authoritarian power blinds the eyes and you forget that you are human. It is not possible to cross yourself, pray to God, and at the same time kill children and people in general”.

March 1 (Reuters) - Get ready for the $10 tube of toothpaste. Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL.N) CEO Noel Wallace said last week at an industry conference that the household goods maker sees its new Optic White Pro Series toothpaste as the type of premium product "vital" to its ability to raise prices, which will help drive profit growth this year. His remarks come when many consumer products companies are hiking prices as much as they can to offset their own rising costs, a trend that could continue due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, whose economic risks include driving up...

Democrats have lost their self-preservation instinct and their will to live. The Democrat Party is on the wrong side of every single issue -- borders, law enforcement, parents vs. teachers, inflation, Critical Race Theory, school choice, cancel culture, lockdowns, masks, individual freedom, gasoline prices, pipelines, wokism, unrestricted abortions, and a president who has dementia, just to name a few. Does the party have a death wish? We have all known persons who are self-destructive. That behavior can afflict groups as well as individuals. The Democrat Party and the left foster self-hatred. They believe that our country is irrevocably racist and...

It has become apparent that the narrative regarding COVID-19 is crumbling quickly. People are not buying what Dr. Anthony Fauci is selling anymore, and they are beginning to realize the entire thing was a scamdemic from the get-go. But the ruling class isn’t taking responsibility for the slaves figuring out they were lied to. They are doubling down, saying had the slaves should have just obeyed and complied and followed the rules “sufficiently.” “Now as their COVID narrative crumbles before their eyes, the near-term PR goal of [Dr. Anthony Fauci] and the whole lockdown crew is to convince you, Joe...

Not only are leftists indoctrinating children with racial incitement, they are erasing the books that teach us to put wisdom in our minds and hearts. Asra Nomani, journalist and parent, testified on March 1st to the House Judiciary Committee on critical race theory in education. She brought children’s books such as Not My Idea to show how radical ideologies appear in kindergarten materials: “Whiteness is a bad deal… it always was,” communicates this book to young minds. This is one of many books that dumb-down decades-old fringe critical theories from academia to present to children as “real” history. The debate...

At 09:00 LT (01:00 UTC) on Thursday, March 3, widespread power outages were affecting Taipei City, Kaohsiung City, Keelung City, New Taipei City, Hualien City, Keelung City, and Tainan City, according to Taiwan News.1 Many intersections have turned into chaotic scenes with traffic police quickly dispatched to direct vehicles, the outlet reported. Firetrucks have been dispatched across the streets of many cities to deal with emergencies such as people being trapped in elevators. Currently, whole districts of Tainan City and Kaohsiung City are suffering power outages, while rolling blackouts are also occurring in the central and northern parts of the...